The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe.

I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go.

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?

Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.

Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.